Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry Golden not just to rally round him but to render him homage...
...fraud had not been occasional, as his fans had hoped; it was not merely a matter of a few questions supplied to keep him going after he had reached the top on his own. It had been as carefully planned from the start as a well-organized stock swindle. He had lied again and again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there...
...Doren testified that he was making a clean breast of the whole sordid story for the benefit of his "millions" of friends-and particularly one unnamed woman whose letter had moved him. In fact, he was cornered by a subpoena from a congressional committee. Furthermore, the evidence of fraud was overwhelming, and Van Doren had already admitted that he had perjured himself in his testimony before the grand jury in New York...
...same witness chair had been occupied for four days by a tawdry succession of fixers and schlockmeisters, corrupters and corrupted (see above). Bob Kintner had gone to Washington with the difficult task of showing that 1) NBC had done everything that could be reasonably expected to prevent or detect fraud on the quiz shows, and 2) the quiz scandals did not reflect a sickness in other areas of television. In 3½ hours of testimony, Kintner notably failed to prove either point...
...Other Frauds. More significant even than the question of the networks' culpability or negligence about the quiz shows was the question of what the whole affair suggests about the TV industry in general. "It could happen to anyone," says NBC Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff. But it seems plain that the special TV environment, with its relentless pressure for higher ratings and higher profits, was at least in part to blame. Newly aroused by the Washington hearings, critics of television began looking for other kinds of coaxial fraud...